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FRANKIE AND MIKE BEGIN TO WORRY THAT AXL'S CHANCES OF GETTING A COLLEGE
SPORTS SCHOLARSHIP HAVE PASSED HIM BY, AND SUE IS DETERMINED TO PROVE THAT SMILING IS CONTAGIOUS FOR A SCHOOL SCIENCE PROJECT, ON ABC'S "THE MIDDLE"

"The Smile" - While other kids begin receiving college acceptance letters and Axl still hasn't, Frankie and Mike begin to worry that their son's chances for a sports scholarship have passed him by. Meanwhile, Sue is determined to prove that smiling is contagious as a hypothesis for a school science project, and a relentless Brick begins pestering his parents for an iPad, on "The Middle," WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 6 (8:00-8:30 p.m., ET) on the ABC Television Network.